Wow it's really happening, the things that I have been hoping for are really starting to move on the web technology front. I am so glad that Microsoft smelt the coffee and got back into the web to compete again. Sure sometimes they don't get it or don't show it, reverting back to their old ways, but some of that new blood is raising the temperature. Check out Ray Ozzie's Wiring the web if you want to see a feature that will proliferate widely through the web over the next few months. I know this active linking and copy/paste idea isn't new, but they have implemented it in a very simple fashion, using simple standards (like our favourite Microformats) and made it work from the outset with Firefox! If you check out the screencasts they even choose Firefox over IE, absolutely awesome. Rest assured the Folknology projects will be taking advantage of this work and are likely to support it with implementations, thats how impressed we are - Guess you never thought you'd hear that here.. Thanks to dave for the heads up. I think now with this combination, Microformats will begin having a real impact on the net yeehah... Congrats to Ray, his brother and the team at Microsoft excellent work and if anyone can make this stick you guys can...

Update : The idea is going down a storm, lots of folks are getting this :
Ross at Random Bytes wants to implement it for his Skydasher
the LiveSide suggest it's usages as a standard next to the feed icon
Todd at Geek New Central liked the copy/paste/link to RSS example for flickr
Ross at Rosscode like the idea of seemless copy from the web into his desktop apps
Marc loves it and points to the Structured blogging effort as an underlying widget/data set
Alex Barnett provides a great roundup as Ray's idea percolates through the blogosphere.

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